Police of the southern province of Binh Duong detected a wildlife transport case on April 28.

VOV.VN - Tens of thousands of visitors flocked to the country’s popular tourist attractions over the national holidays for Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1).

Hanoi’s Department of Transport has planned to switch four major bus stations in the inner city, including Gia Lam, My Dinh, Giap Bat and Nuoc Ngam, into car parks and inner-city bus interchanges by 2020.

No mobile phone subscribers have been locked out of service yet, two days after a controversial new decree went into force that demands subscribers to submit real information – including portrait photos – to network carriers.

VOV.VN - The victory on April 30, 1975 liberated southern Vietnam completely, reunifying the country and ending 30 years of national struggle against foreign invaders. The victory was a turning point in national history and dramatically changed the regional and global political situation. 

Seven flights of low-cost airline Vietjet Air were cancelled on April 29 after a plane of this carrier was hit by a bird last night, according to a Vietjet Air spokesperson.

An article published on The Diplomat magazine has looked for the reason behind an increasing number of people in the Republic of Korea learning Vietnamese, a less familiar language compared to English.

No Vietnamese workers have been found injured or dead in a massive fire that broke out at a factory’s dormitory in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan city, Taiwan (China) around 9:00 pm on April 29.

The landscape cluster of Hon Yen in the central coastal province of Phu Yen has been recognised as a national relic site given its geological, cultural and historical values as well as floral diversity.

Nearly 350,000 tourists are expected to visit the central city of Da Nang on April 30 (the Southern Liberation and National Reunification Day) and May 1 (the International Labour Day), showing a year-on-year rise of 10.2 percent.

VOV.VN - Although ethnic minority people are a small percentage of the population, they are an inseparable part of the nation.

A total of 12 people were killed and seven other were wounded in traffic accidents across Vietnam on April 28, the first day of the four-day holiday marking the Reunification Day (April 30) and International Labor Day (May 1).

VOV.VN - Private libraries have been established by individuals, families, and clans in rural areas over the past few years with free access for local people. This model has encouraged reading among children.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) and its Hanoi chapter on April 28 launched the Humanitarian Month 2018, which was designed to last throughout May.

A delegation of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, People’s Committee, People’s Council and Vietnam Fatherland Front paid tribute to fallen soldiers at the city’s War Martyrs Cemetery on April 28 on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification and the 132nd May Day.

A forum on Vietnam – China tertiary education took place in Hanoi on April 27, gathering representatives from 30 Chinese universities with high global ranking.   

VOV.VN - Thousands of people have flocked to city bus stations to queue up for tickets to their hometowns over the national holidays Liberation Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1), causing severe congestion and overcrowding.

The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs launched the 2018 labour inspection campaign in Hanoi on April 27, with a focus place on the mining sector, which has recently witnessed many occupational accidents.

Three major cities of Vietnam - Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang - will be part of the ASEAN network of smart cities being proposed by Singapore, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on April 26.

The Vietnam Women’s Union Central Committee and the UN Women held a consultation workshop in Hanoi on April 27 to look into the voluntary national review on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from gender equality perspective.

The Hanoi People’s Court announced on April 27 that an appeal trial will open on May 7 for Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of the PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC); Dinh La Thang, former Chairman of the Member Council of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and their accomplices in the PVC case.

VOV.VN - Many households in Dien Bien Phu city in the north-western province of Dien Bien were submerged in flood waters due to a prolonged period of torrential rain on April 27.

The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has confirmed that the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) international undersea cable has been fixed.

 Vu Manh Tung, former Deputy Director General of the Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd, has been prosecuted and taken into temporary detention over the charge of “abusing position and power to appropriate assets.”

VOV.VN - The death toll from smoking-related diseases in Vietnam has amounted to 40,000 per year, according to statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO). 

More than 270 businesses and households in Ho Chi Minh City have installed solar power panels on roofs with a total capacity of about 3,600KWp, according to the HCM City Power Corp under Electricity of Vietnam (EVN HCM City).

 Vietnamese are set to enjoy a long holiday from April 28, and services are already strained under the expected surge of people ready to leave big cities.

The Health Ministry has instructed hospitals under its control and specialised clinics to establish gerontology faculties with a view to improving health care services for elderly people. 

VOV.VN - Traffic accidents have killed 2,788 people and injured more than 4,600 others in the first four months of the year, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee. 

Online education is gaining traction in Vietnam and continued growth into the future seems almost certain.